How it works
These boat name fonts are ten faces: five heavy scripts, four with strong capitals and one stencil. The page opens on a made-up name and port in white Lobster on night blue. Type yours in Your name.
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Ten faces, three kinds
Scripts: Lobster, Pacifico, Yellowtail, Kaushan Script and Mr Dafoe. Capitals: Cinzel, drawn after Roman inscriptions, and the narrow Bebas Neue have no small letters; Playfair Display and the slab Alfa Slab One keep them. Stardos Stencil breaks each letter into stencil pieces.
Hull color, outline and arch
Background stands for the hull: Night blue, Black, White or Sky blue, and Transparent saves the letters alone. Outline puts a rim of a second color around each letter and Drop shadow an offset copy behind it, which keeps a name readable where ink and hull are close. Arch, under More options, joins name and port into one curved line.
- Gold brings its own colors: the ink chosen under Colours does not apply while it is on.
- In Cinzel a capital key gives a taller letter than a lowercase key: both are capitals.
Questions and answers
Which fonts for boat names are on this page?
Ten: the scripts Lobster, Pacifico, Yellowtail, Kaushan Script and Mr Dafoe, the capitals Cinzel, Playfair Display, Alfa Slab One and Bebas Neue, and Stardos Stencil. All are open-license faces, listed under the tool with designer and license.
Does the page pick the best boat name font for me?
No. It draws your name in whichever face you tap, on your own hull color, so you can compare them side by side in saved pictures. It ranks none of them.
Can I take the lettering to a sign shop?
The page saves a PNG and an SVG of the name, and the SVG scales without blurring. It cannot say which file a given shop or cutting machine accepts.
Does it follow the lettering rules for registered boats?
No. The page draws letters and knows nothing about registration, letter sizes or where a name must go. Those rules differ from place to place and are not covered here.